AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

sUBTRa LIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STEAMER SAFE. r WASHINGTON, April 12. 'Hie steamer A returns with scientists aboard is reported sale near Galapozos Islands. POISON TRAGEDIES. NEW YORK, April 12. Mercury in sufficient quantities to kill two persons, was found in the body of MeClintoek’s mother, -Mrs Emma .McClinl.ock, who died in 1900. The coroner now declares he is positive she was murdered, because the evidence was of such a nature that theories of suicide or accidental poisoning we re unacceptable. Judge Olsen who initiated the enquiry claims Sheppard murdered the woman as the first step in a plot to gain control of a million dollar estate. He then killed Dr Olsen when the latter threatened to baulk his plans and finally poisoned MeCliii-toc-k when a long impending marriage threatened to deprive him of the money. Mercury was also found in Dr Olsen’s hotly after three years in the grave. The coroner is awaiting a report whether there is sufficient to cause death. A physician who attended the Woman declares he never prescribed mercury. NEW YORK, April 12. A second charge of murder confronts \\ illiam Sheppard, who is already indicted on charges of murdering Wil-S lin in Mc( ’lintock (cabled February IS). ; WOOD ALCOHOL. NEW YORK, April 12. America’s wood alcohol industry, worth twenty millions sterling annually is threatened with extinction because the Germans are making synthetic metanol from water gas ami shipping huge quantities to America.

VOIC E OF LABOR. OTTAWA, April 13. Tom Moore, President of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada stated a resolution demanding independence from Britain passed by the Ontario section of the Canadian Labour Party, does not voice the sentiments of organised Canadian workers. Foiled in attempts to capture the trade union movement through the 'Trades and Labour Congress, the Communists are now making the political Labour Party a medium of propaganda for politics. Mr Moore stated, similar resolutions were brought before the Congress (luring recent years and had been overwhelminglv reiected bv organised workers. COMMUNISTS IN CANADA. OTTAWA, April 13. Communist s scored a victory in f la' election of officers at the Ontario section of the Canadian Labour Party, electing a president, a vice-president and secured control ol the executive. A resolution presented by tin* Communists providing that live delegates from the Canadian Labour Party to the gathering of the British Empire Labour parties ip I.pinion next year be instructed to move that colonial and semi-i olonial portions ol the Empire have complete itidopedence, was adopted. William Irvine and 3. S. Woodwor th, troth members of the Federal | Parliament, are among the delegates to attend the Loudon Conlcreuce. ( oniin mi is t s declare their next step oiil lie tq attempt to gain the control ol the Dominion Convention of the i rades and Labour Congress. U.S.A. FLEET VISIT. WASHINGTON, April 13.

The Navy Department ■announces the following further changes in the Australian and New Zealand cruise. The cruisers Richmond'. Trenton. Marblehead and Memphis will visit Hobart from the fifth to the seventh of August. A detachment of the tleet which will visit Melbouni 1 will nisi visit Wellington. The dates of this visit are Melbourne I'' July —. >r<! to August fjth.. and Wellii , ton from August TUli. to tlve 21 th.

The Sydney detachment- will visit Sydney from July 23rd. to August oth. .in! Auckland from August 11th. to August 25th.

The, lisL of vessels for the Australian aml New Zealand cruise is. however,

unchanged